August Wilson

The Piano Lesson: The Haunting of Pittsburgh

August Wilson's study of slavery's ghostly heritage

This Week In The Voice: The NYPD Tapes

​Who knows what goes on behind the closed doors, locked file cabinets, and day-to-day routines of the NYPD? Other than them, nobody. Which is one of the reasons why one of New York's Finest saw fit to record his life among their ranks, and shed light on some of the darker aspects of those who ... More >>

Enron Collapses; Collected Stories and Fences Stand Firm

TAKE ME OUT TO THE THEATER

Denzel Washington comes to Broadway in Fences

Michelle Obama Visits New York, Exhibits Watered-Down Cultural Tastes Yet Again

​President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have shown pretty decent taste whenever they visit our fair city. So why the hell'd they do this, of everything else there is to see in town?

SING THE BLUES

The People revive August Wilson's 1982 play

The Dishwashers Shine Up 59E59's New Festival

Three Top-10 Lists From the 2008-2009 Theater Season

Next to Normal and Joe Turner: Visions on Broadway; Yeats Project: Near Myth

HE'S BAAAACK

A revival of Joe Turner’s Come and Gone

Afrobeating the Dictators in Fela!

In the new musical, two strong assets search for a more cogent context

The Best of 2007

Voice writers pick their favorite 20 books of the year

Who Played Ya?

On the quite possibly ill-advised online hunt for the star of the Biggie Smalls biopic

Sports and Past Times

Radio Golf lands a little short; at Deuce, it's fault, McNally

Cutting Remarks

Vagina dialogues, wildly theatrical theatrics, and some of zee most outrageous zings you've heard

Divine Disrepair

Resurrecting August Wilson's King

Eulogy for Black Caesar

James Brown, 1933–2006

Quiet Centers

Wilson's Two Trains and Mamet's Voysey keep the storms offstage and the moral crises on

Pittsburgh Living Blues

August Wilson's panoramic vision: Love, music, food money—and omnipresent death

Loving the Ironman

The last Clansman standing delivers working man's Wu

Gordon Parks, 1912-2006

The renowned photographer, filmmaker, and author was as self-made as self-made men get

August Wilson (1945-2005)

Unquiet Spirits

In the first play of August Wilson's cycle, familiar patterns take on newly articulate flesh

White Freedom

The angstiest wigga alive exercises privilege, bears cross, rallies flock, begs forgiveness

Walk Like An Egyptian

Betty Shamieh shucks Palestinian politics for soapy sex

Off Directing (Part Two)

Staging Makes War on Scripts, but What's the Battle About?

NY Mirror

We're #2!

Howard's Professor of Desire; O'Hara Gets Skittish

NYC's Forsaken Future

An Alarming Report on the State of New York's Women of Color

Race Records

Survival's the Tune, and August Wilson's Plays Sing It

Theater

The Sorrow and the City

August Wilson’s New Main Man

Marion McClinton Brings ‘King Hedley II’ to Broadway

Theater

Whomped by Wampum

Black Theaters Cope With Cash Crunch

Waves of Faves

Thirty-Three New York Theater Types Offer Up Their Favorite Productions From the 1999–2000 Season

Ways and Meanings

Making the Scenes

New Dramatists Turns 50